Hi, this is Jason Horowitz, the Rome Bureau Chief of the New York Times, and I'm here in St. Peter's Square.

Looking up at the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals are inside voting on who the next Pope should be.

Like everybody else, I'm looking at a chimney surrounded by seagulls and trying to figure out if anything's coming out of it and if it's smoke, if it's black smoke, they have an inconclusive vote or if it is white smoke, which means we have a pope.

So there's white smoke in the square, and I'm running back to file the story.

But once again, white smoke, a new pope.

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow.

This is the Daily.

Today.

The world's 1.4 billion Catholics now have a new pope.

And for the first time, he's from America.

It's Friday, May 9th. It's Friday, May 9th. Jason, good evening.

Good evening, Michael.

As they say in Italy, Habamus

Poblin.

Do I have that right?

Yeah, we don't say it all the time, just when we get a

pope. And it happened pretty quickly. Yeah, it happened really quickly. It was the second day.

A lot of people thought we were going to be in a long conclave. It seemed like they had a lot of new Cardinals

who needed to get to know each other and wasn't very clear how long they would be in there.

The idea was that if it was as quick as it was, as it's been actually pretty often going back to

the 1930s, it would be someone who was a frontrunner, someone we had been hearing a lot about.

And that's not exactly how it shook out.

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